Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION Co-Author Join FALLFEST/16: SPEED in Chicago

The Chicago Humanities Festival announces a number of additions and changes to its Fallfest/16: Speed line-up. Additional interviewers and interlocutors will continue to be added in the coming days.

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Additions:

YA Lit in Kicks, Hoops, and Verse

The Allstate Insurance Company Program

Saturday, Oct 29 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Josephine Louis Theater

20 Arts Circle Rd | Evanston, IL | 60208

Playwright, director, musician, and Executive Producer of Ma'at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre (MPAACT), Shepsu Aakhu will join Kwame Alexander in conversation. Alexander's book, Booked, was recently longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

How to Write Fast and Why

Fri, Nov 4 | 6 - 7 PM

Francis W. Parker School, Diane and David B Heller Auditorium

2233 N Clark St | Chicago, IL | 60614

Ian Belknap, the Chicago writer/performer and founder/curator/host of WRITE CLUB, the nation's premiere competitive philanthropic readings series, will join NaNoWriMo Executive Director Grant Faulkner in conversation.

Christopher Wheeldon/Ashley Wheater: Ballet in Conversation

Sat, Nov 5 | 1 - 2 PM

Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Buchanan Chapel at the Gratz Center

126 E Chestnut St | Chicago, IL | 60611

Christopher Wheeldon and Ashley Wheater will be interviewed by Chicago Sun-TimesTheater and Dance Critic Hedy Weiss.

The Destiny and Power of George H.W. Bush

Sat, Nov 5 | 7 - 8 PM

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Thorne Auditorium

375 E Chicago Ave | Chicago, IL | 60611

Steve Edwards, formerly the host of WBEZ's The Afternoon Shift and Eight Forty-Eightand now the Executive Director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, will join Jon Meacham's discussion of the life and Presidency of George H.W. Bush.

From Hairspray to Hamilton

Sally and Michael Feder Program

Sat, Nov 12 | 4 - 5 PM

Venue SIX10, Feinberg Theater

610 S Michigan Ave | Chicago, IL | 60605

Jeremy McCarter, the co-author of Hamilton: The Revolution with Lin-Manuel Miranda, will join Jack Viertel in conversation. McCarter has been a cultural critic for New Yorkmagazine, Newsweek, and an editor at The New Republic.

Cancellations:

The Future of SCOTUS

Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago

Sat, Nov 5 | 5 - 6 PM

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Thorne Auditorium

375 E Chicago Ave | Chicago, IL | 60611

University of Chicago professor Geoffrey Stone has canceled this program due to a scheduling conflict.

SAVE THE DATES:

Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 - James and Laurie Bay present Lin-Manuel Miranda in conversation with Chris Jones

Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 - Ellen Stone Belic Presents In Her Infinite Wisdom Gloria Steinem program

Monday, Oct. 17, 2016 - The 27th Anniversary Gala Benefit honoring John W. McCarter, Jr. and Ariel Investments, featuring a public program with Thomas Friedman for the Richard J. Franke Lecture in Economics

Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 - Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Northwestern University Day

Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016 - 10th annual Hyde Park Day on the University of Chicago campus

Monday, Nov. 1, 2016 - Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 - 2016 FallFest events throughout Chicago

Friday, Nov. 11, 2016 - An Evening in Bronzeville programs

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Tickets to the 2016 Chicago Humanities Festival's go on sale to CHF members on Tuesday, September 20. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, September 27. Tickets are available online at tickets.chicagohumanities.org and by calling CHF"s box office at (312) 494-9504 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. To become a CHF member and support CHF in its mission to celebrate the social life of ideas, visit supportchf.org.

At Chicago Humanities Festival, we believe that humanity thrives when people gather, connect and open themselves to ideas that go beyond their individual experience. That's why for more than 25 years, CHF curates live events that allow audiences to connect with thinkers-both established and emerging and see the world differently. Under the leadership of Executive Director Phillip Bahar, Thoma Artistic Director Jonathan Elmer, and Associate Artistic Director Alison Cuddy, CHF is one of Chicago's most vibrant civic institutions. Join us and celebrate the social life of ideas. For more, visit chicagohumanities.org.

Our society seems to have one setting-faster. At Fallfest/16: Speed, October 29-November 12, we'll examine the speed of daily life, today, tomorrow and in decades past; and we'll discuss the politicians that urge us to hurry up and the artists that force us to slow down. As always, we'll celebrate and question ideas within the context of civic life, connecting artists, authors, journalists, scholars, policy makers and other great thinkers with passionate and adventurous audiences. For more information and to view the full schedule (available September 6), visit chicagohumanities.org/speed.